This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com

PARK CITY, UTAH—Everybody likes to get a little last-minute shopping in before heading for the airport, and film distribution companies working the Sundance Film Festival are no different.

As the festival heads into the home stretch this weekend (prizes will be announced Jan. 26) more deals are being made for movie sales, good news for the indie filmmakers who come here hoping to return home with a distribution deal.

Radius/The Weinstein Company made a deal for the Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace, which had its world premiere Tuesday night, adding to earlier acquisitions: dramas Concussion and Fruitvale and docs Twenty Feet From Stardom and Inequality For All.

Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard, will be in theatres this fall, the company said in a press release.

Also on Tuesday, Fox Searchlight paid an estimated $10 million for the Steve Carrell starrer The Way, Way Back. The dramedy is directed by Oscar-winning screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants).

Article Continued Below

Meanwhile, Magnolia Pictures announced Wednesday it had picked up North American rights to writer/director David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in “an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that’s been ravaged by wildfire.”

Sales announced earlier this week include Austenland and Kill Your Darlings (Sony), Don Jon’s Addiction (Relativity) and The Spectacular Now (A24), Two Mothers (Exclusive Releasing), Toy’s House (CBS Films), We Are What We Are (eOne), Blackfish (CNN Films and Magnolia), The Look of Love (ICF Films) and Jobs, which stars Ashton Kutcher as Apple founder Steve Jobs. It sold before Sundance opened and is the closing-night film.

Delivered dailyThe Morning Headlines Newsletter

The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please contact us or see our privacy policy for more information.

More from the Toronto Star & Partners

LOADING

Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or distribution of this content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. To order copies of Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com